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Erosion as a Cognitive ConditionThis isn’t burnout. It’s the chronic thinning of interpretive, attentional, and emotional bandwidth caused by environments that exceed human processing limits.Platforms, institutions, and crisis‑driven systems extract cognition as if it were infinite.The result?•
📖 Read the full essay:
🔗 DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18763241
🔗 Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/signalrupture/p/erosion-as-a-cognitive-condition?r=6snxm0&utm_medium=ios#SignalRupture #CognitiveErosion #PostWeb #SystemicFatigue #InterpretiveCollapse #SRCanon

Erosion as a Cognitive Condition

Erosion as a Cognitive Condition theorizes cognitive erosion as a structural effect of contemporary infrastructures that demand continuous interpretive, attentional, and emotional labor beyond human processing limits. The essay distinguishes cognitive erosion from burnout by framing it as a chronic, infrastructural condition rather than an episodic psychological response. Through an analysis of architectures of extraction — including platform acceleration, boundary collapse, informational noise, and crisis‑driven environments — the work explains how cognition becomes thin, brittle, and unable to sustain coherence. By positioning cognitive erosion as a systemic mismatch between human bandwidth and the environments that consume it, the essay provides a framework for interpreting disengagement, fragmentation, and low‑capacity states as diagnostic signals of infrastructural overload. This contribution expands the SignalRupture canon by establishing cognitive erosion as a precursor to rupture and a core mechanism of contemporary human depletion.

Zenodo

Signal Rupture Feb 24

People aren’t disengaging — they’re depleted.
Erosion fatigue is what happens when systems demand more bandwidth than humans can supply.

New essay:
🔗 https://open.substack.com/pub/signalrupture/p/erosion-fatigue-why-people-arent?r=6snxm0&utm_medium=ios

DOI:
📚 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18751463

#SignalRupture #ErosionFatigue #HumanErosion #BandwidthCollapse #PostWeb

Erosion Fatigue: Why People Aren’t Disengaging — They’re Depleted

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18751463

SignalRupture's Substack

Signal Rupture Feb 24

Institutions aren’t failing culturally — they’re failing infrastructurally.
Search drifts. AI interprets. Visibility collapses.
This 3‑page briefing explains the shift.

🔗 Substack
https://open.substack.com/pub/signalrupture/p/institutional-briefing-navigating?r=6snxm0&utm_medium=ios

📚 DOI
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18751003

#SignalRupture #PostWeb #InstitutionalCollapse

Institutional Briefing: Navigating the Collapse of Interpretive Infrastructure

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18751003

SignalRupture's Substack

seeteegee Jan 5, 2024

The SuperTXT site got a bit of a new years makeover.

=> supertxt.net

#postweb

seeteegee Oct 22, 2023

There's a new announcement from the #supertxt team about their WebAssembly offering: wanine. It's a runtime that can run web assembly binaries over ssh, and has an experimental gui that runs outside of a web browser, and via a shiny filesystem like #plan9.

https://supertxt.net/articles/2023-11-22-announcing-wanine.html

#postweb #webassembly

This is pretty cool.

Announcing WA-Nine: WebAssembly for the SuperTXT stack

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seeteegee Oct 18, 2023

@robin This is a thought provoking series, thank you. I think it's important to have the dialog about what the #postweb should look like, and values are a great place to start. I've had on this topic.

One belief that I have is that there's a kind of impediment to user agency by computing complexity, inconsistency, and boundaries.

For example, why do we even differentiate between the OS that runs my computer and The Web? Why are they not two sides of the same user paradigm? Why aren't there a basic set of metaphors (e.g. files, directories, commands, streams, whatever) that I can use to understand computing in general no matter what corner of the boot loader, facebook marketplace, shell script, or account that I might end up?

Instead, we have set up walls between The Web and the reality of the software that gets my phone up and running. Users either must understand whole different concepts, such as files vs. resources, or commands vs. URL's, OAuth vs. ssh keys, or they choose to live in a walled garden as best as they can with a benevolent dictator at the helm that supports the things we need to live a modern life.

seeteegee Sep 11, 2023

I've been doing some experimentation with a new command called "cats" that works in the unix shell. Check out my latest video on the topic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miC0HHFnXUw

#supertxt #postweb #unix #shell